Adult Social Worker, Community Support Service

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Worker within the Adult Community Support Team to work full time based in Oxfordshire.

The salary for this permanent Social Worker job is up to £42,403 per annum.

Main duties:

• Use strength-based approaches, ensuring that in responding to eligible needs all options including the use of informal support networks, community resources, and the assessment of equipment and adaptations are explored in order to achieve identified outcomes.
• To undertake timely and proportionate assessments, reviews and professional interventions and other duties relating to individuals, families and carers.
• Ensure support plans are reflective of the persons needs and outcomes by providing a clear breakdown of how these are being met, regardless of determination of eligibility.
• To make telephone enquiries, undertake face to face visits in the community, facilitate clinics and be responsible for the management and prioritisation of a caseload.
• Fulfil the role of a trusted assessor, making an assessment of when to involve another social/health care professional where a specialist assessment, skill or intervention is required.
•  Maintain comprehensive, accurate and professionally defensible records of work undertaken, to ensure compliance with organisational guidelines and professional standards. When required wrote court reports and give evidence during legal proceedings.
• Provide supervision if required to identified staff or students in line with OCC Supervision Policy.
• Support and adhere to comments and complaints policies and procedures as required through attending the complaint meetings and implementing any learning actions and outcomes.
• Actively engage in continuous professional development in order to maintain professional registration which may include other roles including Approved Mental Health Practitioner, Practice Educator and Best Interest Assessor.
• Apply principles of social justice, social inclusion and equality decision making in all casework, challenging issues of discrimination and oppression and demonstrating the confident application of ethical reasoning to professional practice.

Requirements of a Social Worker:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.